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Roger Kisby/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The hissing, deadly cobra that vanished from the Bronx Zoo last weekend may have been caught Thursday, but that's not stopping her from keeping a very high profile.

Since Monday, fans have been following the slippery snake by the thousands on Twitter at @BronxZoosCobra. The stream's mystery author -- who remains a mystery -- tweeted the imaginary escapades of the escaped female cobra as it took on Manhattan.

Seacrest's homepage had been entirely overrun with snake-related content, like "Britney Spears' Python: Where Is He Now," a roundup of "Best Snake Tattoos" and breaking news that Ryan Seacrest himself had been "Captured & Returned to Pygmy Marmoset Exhibit at L.A. Zoo."

In real life, the elusive snake was found "coiled, sort of secluded in a dark corner" about 9 a.m. Thursday -- with nary a smartphone in sight -- a couple of hundred feet away from the enclosure from which she had slithered, said Bronx Zoo Director Jim Breheny.

The poisonous cobra disappeared from the zoo last Saturday and immediately became New York's hottest -- and skinniest -- celebrity. The teenage cobra built up a huge following on Twitter with more than 200,000 followers while she was on the lam.